The news article reads like a scene from Marvel Comics. The Washington Post reports that a “French soldier [was] stabbed in neck by robed attacker” in Paris. Robed? You mean like Dr. Strange? Then follow a few more tantalizing details.

“The lone attacker was described as a young man wearing a Muslim prayer cap and a North African-style robe called a jellabah. According to a police account, he was monitored on security cameras and seen shedding his robe and fleeing in European clothes before disappearing into the crowd in a subway and suburban train entrance.”

The Independentdeepens the mystery by reporting that “French President Francois Hollande said the identity of the attacker, who escaped, was unknown and cautioned against jumping to conclusions about the assault on the uniformed soldier in the La Defense shopping area.” Jumping to conclusions apparently is something that has very serious consequences, as the very same Independent reports that two men were arrested for “allegedly making offensive comments on Twitter about the murder of a British soldier in Woolwich. Complaints were made to police about comments that appeared on the social networking website, which were of an allegedly racist or anti-religious nature.”

Pity the readers who thought it was about robes. There is something definitely afoot, for despite the mystery about which we should not jump to conclusions the authorities seem to have a very definite idea what the actual words are which no one is allowed to utter. Any article using those specific words or phrases, none of which are supposed to spring to mind, is immediately punished, as Nick Robinson of the BBC found out.

The BBC’s political editor has apologized for directly quoting a Whitehall source who described the Woolwich killers as being ‘of Muslim appearance’. Nick Robinson said he was sorry for using the phrase, which ‘was both liable to be misinterpreted and to cause offence’, during the BBC News at Six broadcast yesterday.

How could they have known to punish Robinson for making that reference as opposed to saying “redneck American morons”? How did they know which key words to watch for? There appears to be something that everyone knows yet pretends not to know.

The same kind of bizarre game is being played by the press in the coverage of the riots in Stockholm, now going for almost a week. The Washington Post sets out five charts to explain Sweden’s “youth riots.” “The violent youth riots that spread across Stockholm’s suburbs this week seem at odds with the public perception of Sweden as one of the world’s most liberal and tolerant countries.” We are told the “youth riots” are due to the relative underprivilege of the “foreign born.” But does the Post mean Chinese immigrants then? No they don’t. The Washington Post knows what it means and we are supposed to know what it means, but we are not supposed to admit that we know what it means.

The enemy who will not be named by the government who will not be informed.

Ahh, yes. We are in the best of hands.

We won't "profile" the traits of sworn enemies...that is, unless we are profiling political "enemies" for the IRS.

We won't call jihadists "warrirors" or "terrorists" or declare them to be a clear and present danger, or train our soldiers to beware of them. We are too busy training our soldiers to beware of Catholics, Orthodox Jews, Mormons and Evangelical Christians.

We are not interested in protecting the 1st Amendment or freedom of religion rights of YouTube video producers, Fox News reporters or Tea Party members. We are too busy protecting the rights of assembly for those who wish to build a mosque upon the bones, blood and sinew at Ground Zero.

The enemy who will not be named...by the government who will not be informed...each moves about in darkness. Dancing in concert upon the freedoms, liberties and security of a citizenry that votes to commit mass suicide by allowing themselves to be thus abused.

Perhaps on reason why the Greatest Generation so decisively changed the world is that most of them only had a high school education. They didn't have enough education to the swallow the monumental, sophisticated lies that we are sold today.

They had not yet lost possession of the basic instincts that protected the human race through its long history, and unlike the sophisticates who saw in the Fascists and Communists the Supermen of Tomorrow -- the men with robes -- those homely people could bring themselves only to see thugs in cheap uniforms.

What is marvelous about today's narratives is it can get away with telling lies that nobody -- not even the tellers -- believe. You would think that the first principle of propaganda is that falsehoods should be plausible. But somewhere we crossed the line into a world where the less we believe in something, the truer it is.

And so the media elites are always waiting to head the public off at the pass; a pass whose location nobody is even supposed to know. How surpassingly strange that our leaders should act as not as if they were convinced that the unnamed personages were innocent; but as if they were certain of their guilt.

The Stockholm rioters who are setting cars and schools on fire are identified as immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East, but their religious affiliation is unmentioned. The law abiding Swedish citizens who attempt to defend their city and their homes and their families are identified by the authorities as right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis. This cowardice by Western authorities will continue until someone puts a stop to it, violently if necessary. The alternative is the slow and increasingly violent death of Western civilization at the hands of the barbarians. The brilliant, briefly lit fire of Western thought, science and art will die, as other civilizations have died before us, and life will continue, though not as before.

The western sky, a setting sunSnow topped mountains gleaming goldShadows turn the desert dunScience, music, art untoldOnce discarded aren’t returnedOnce great cities, soul and heartOf the West, destroyed and burnedPilgrims harried and departLike Detroit, a hollow shellNew York, London meet their fateSay goodbye and wish them wellTime is gone, the hour lateBut the world will soon forgetThere was once a better placeWhere free people freely metChallenges with smiling graceNight is nigh, and come the dawnOthers follow in their wayThey won’t miss us when we’re goneAnd the sun sets day by day

Dr. Strange was one of the good guys. He even fought against the tyrants taking over the US in the Civil War cycle.

Seriously though, these attackers do have the advantage, particularly in England. It has been wondered on many sites why no men jumped in to help the soldier. Two reasons. 1) they were unarmed. 2) If they had, precedent in England is that those who interfere with a criminal's "choice of action" will be arrested and feel the full weight of the law while the criminal is home in time for tea. So, you can bet that weighed very heavily on their minds.

Why is any one surprised at this conduct by Muslims? Look at Egypt, Somalia, Libya, etc., etc. ... . This is what Muslims do; this is Islam. This the great Islamic contribution to society that Obama is so proud of.

Fail Burton is correct. The racism of the sincere liberal convention organizers in Wtsconsin is no different from that of the Segregationists of 50 to 100 years ago. I have read the South Carolina educational reports full of statements about the need to provide separate facilities for the Negros where they could flourish. Endicott in "In the Heat of the Night" cared for the Negro like he cared for his flowers. Islamists assure us they only want to protect women from the lusts of men.

When High School administrators, where students have at best limited rights of self determination, choose to imitate College authorities, but really that was just an excuse to abdicate responsibility, and permit racial and sexual grievance groups to establish segregated tables in the cafeteria we started down this road.

Feminist liberals are as dumb as stumps. They're supposedly reacting to things like "whites only" water fountains now a half-century gone by re-instituting them in principle. These are people who I saw exchanged angry Tweets expressing horror about the first integrated prom somewhere in Georgia and then mimic it.

I'm pretty sure they think the word "irony" has something to do with wrinkles.

Whoever thought the KKK would be revitalized in Madison and with concerns about wheel chair access and allergies to scented products? Smart PR blokes, racists. And I do mean blokes.

We in modern civilization are tolerant and forgiving. I wonder how far things will get before we have outright war with Islam.

Europe is much farther down this road than the Americas. How long before we see a round up of all Muslims, good, bad and in between, along with forced sterilizations? Do we really think that a continent that brought us the Nazism of the Germans, the fascism of the Spanish, and the fascism of the Italians, will just sit back and watch their cities burn?

Many European countries can be expected to sit back and watch their cities burn. They are already doing it. I would guess Sweden, Denmark, Norway fall straight into that category: self-neutered. Belgium also, Holland probably so. Germany and France perhaps a bit less so, along with Austria and Italy, Spain. Of the Western European countries, the only one I am sure will stand up vigorously (or probably) is Switzerland. East European countries are different, but I think they also have far fewer Muslim immigrants in general.

I believe it was 20 years ago when I read about a major university in which black students demanded their own dorm.

One commentator at that time pointed out that 50 years before we had at great cost defeated an ideology that emphasized genectics, that evaluated people on how many drops of Jewish blood they carried. And now that ideology had triumphed, promoted by the very sort of people those same ideas would have exterminated.

The SF Community is simply reacting to what it sees as the desires of "people of color." Segregation is no longer imposed, but some insist on it as an option for themselves.

violence has its own logic - it significantly shapes our world and has so since dirt, it determines (and has determined) our relationship with each other and with governments (of whatever stripe, king, prince, senator, president, premier etc etc); we pay dearly for the protection government "provides".....when this bargain, as Wretchard calls it, the king's justice (a good term) no longer works, things break down, in a big way -

What many try to sell as "understanding", "sensitivity" is nothing but cowardice in the face of unanswered violence....reporters are cowards, Obama is a coward, the Brits are cowards, the French are cowards, we are all cowards, with no fight for what needs to be done, no understanding of it or the enemy, or how to fight. I admit I don't get it - I guess I'm a coward too.

Think about it - two clowns (albeit murdering savage bastard clowns) effectively close down an entire city for several days, thousands of "protectors" were engaged to really no effect and one enemy "soldier" is killed, the other captured....the logic of violence tells me that this is a big winning strategy - dispersed fighters, simple, open source orders and instructions, minimal training, rock hard commitment marrying ideology and the numinous - man are we f****ed unless we wake up....WTF.

Multicultural Dictionary of Liberal Thought: _Allahu Akbar!!_: an expression that has nothing to do will Islam, which is a religion of peace that has been greatly abused by The West and its allies, particularly the Jews.